NHTSA Study Indicates That Smoking Pot Probably Will NOT Increase Likelihood Of A Car Crash

A new survey released by the U.S. government suggests that smoking pot might not significantly increase the risk of a car crash.

NHTSA said the study is the “most precisely controlled” of its kind to date. It suggests that drivers who smoke marijuana are generally more likely to be involved in a traffic accident, but that the increased likelihood is probably coincidental.

“Analyses incorporating adjustments for age, gender, ethnicity, and alcohol concentration level did not show a significant increase in levels of crash risk associated with the presence of drugs,” the study reads. “This finding indicates that these other variables (age, gender ethnicity and alcohol use) were highly correlated with drug use and account for much of the increased risk associated with the use of illegal drugs and with THC.”

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TheSteve - 2/10/2015 4:38:28 PM

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But it WILL increase pizza and chips sales.

scenicbyway12 - 2/10/2015 5:40:39 PM

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Duuuuuude!!!

MDarringer - 2/10/2015 9:02:36 PM

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Legalizing pot = more obese Americans

w222 - 2/11/2015 12:49:30 PM

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once the majority of Americans are obese, there will be a new and higher bar for obesity and everyone else will no longer be obese. thank you pizza and chips

TheSteve - 2/12/2015 12:45:47 PM

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Just as a data point, Ireland used to have laws that allowed the sale of condoms only with a doctor's prescription. Seriously. The belief by Church and conservative elements was that if condoms became freely available, people would be fornicating in the streets. The law was repealed late in the 20th Century. Incidents of street fornication did not increase.

When some European countries proposed legalizing drugs, part of their population opposed it, believing the country would be overrun by drug-crazed maniacs and stoned zombies. When the recreational drugs became legalized, drug consumption didn't increase. However, drug-related crime decreased sharply. Research even showed that heroin addicts, if give their supply of smack, can live a normal life rather than what anti-drug people imagined would be a drug-induced stupor.

The fact is that for much of human history, mind-altering drugs have been around in one form or another. Fermented fruit juice (wine), fermented honey, certain leaves chewed, other leaves smoked, some mushrooms and other fungi eaten, some tree barks chewed, licking a certain frog, smoking certain flower seeds. The list goes on an on. History also tells us that some people chose to do drugs, but most didn't. Same as today.

BTW, I don't do drugs. I also don't condemn those who do. My choice is for me. Their choice is theirs.